Residential Schools & 60s Scoop DiscussionQuestions
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Instructions:
Watch the videos below about Residential schools and the 60s scoop and then answer the following questions in thoughtful and thorough detail!
Reconciliation to a Hard Truth
Accounts of Residential Schools Continue
Stolen Children: Residential School Survivors Speak Out
The 60s Scoop: More Than Sorry
Questions:
- What are residential schools?
In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.
- Who ran the residential schools and why?
- What happened to children in the schools?
- What long term impacts did residential school have on individual children? And how do we see those impacts TODAY?
- What long term impacts have the residential schools had on First Nations communities? How do we still see those impacts TODAY?
- Have all stakeholders who were involved in running Residential Schools made apologies to those who attended residential schools? If not, who has not apologized and what is their reasoning for not providing one?
- Do you feel that there should be more to compensate those who went through the residential schools? What about the families of those who did not survive?
The 60s Scoop
- What is the 60s scoop?
- Who was responsible for the 60s scoop?
- What are the long term impacts on children and families as a result of the 60s scoop? How do we still see the impacts TODAY?
- Has anyone apologized for the 60s scoop? If so, who?
- Has there been any compensation for the occurrence of the 60s scoop? If so, what?
- Do you feel that there should be more compensation to those who were taken from their families? What about the families they were taken from?